Sunday, January 18, 2015

La Galette des Rois

"The King's Cake", in English is basically the most delicious and entertaining cake there is. 
For the taste, imagine almonds. It's a "nut cake" as Elvira put it. It's not a cake like we think. More like a pastry. A really large pastry. And the dough is really flaky. Like phyllo dough. And the texture of the inside.. I don't know what to compare that to. Heaven? 
However, we have not even gotten to the fun stuff yet. 
The pieces are cut. Then all of the kids go under the table. They have a specific saying and word that everyone here knows to use but I don't know them very well. Basically, the person cutting the cake asks the youngest kid under the table who gets each piece. Once these are distributed everyone feasts! But carefully, because in one slice is a small plastic something-or-other (in our case a woman who looked a tad like Mickey Mouse). Whoever gets this is King for the day- voila! 
(I apologize the really rough pictures of me in Facebook I will not post them again here- I will post an embarrassing picture of Jacob though for you all's entertainment)
Sadly, he didn't wear this to town. He said he "commanded himself not to wear it."

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